Principal Application Support Engineering – AI Products & Agents

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.  About Tech@Lilly At Lilly, everything we do starts with patients. We unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our global team of over 50,000 employees work with urgency and purpose to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. We bring our best to this work because people depend on it. If you're driven by purpose and determined to make a meaningful difference for patients, we invite you to bring your skill and your commitment to Lilly. At Lilly, technology is not a support function. It is how a global medicine company operates, innovates, and delivers. Lilly in Hyderabad builds the capabilities that make this possible, cloud platforms, AI systems, and automation at enterprise scale, all in service of a purpose that makes this technology work genuinely distinctive, from advancing drug discovery to enabling connected clinical trials to keeping a global medicine company running at the standard patients deserve. Principal Engineer – Operations, Reliability & AI Platforms (R3) About the Role As a Principal Engineer – Operations, Reliability & AI Platforms, you will provide technical leadership for enterprise-scale production systems, cloud platforms, and AI-powered applications. You will drive reliability, operational excellence, observability, automation, and resiliency across multiple products and platforms while serving as a trusted engineering leader for critical business services. This role combines deep technical expertise, architectural leadership, operational ownership, and strategic thinking. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Platform, Security, and Operations teams to establish reliability standards, eliminate operational toil through automation, improve system resilience, and ensure mission-critical services operate securely and efficiently at scale. What You'll Be Doing Technical Leadership & Strategy • Define and drive the operational engineering strategy for enterprise applications, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled systems. • Establish standards for reliability, scalability, availability, performance, security, and operational excellence.